Rivers Pathfinder

"Rivers are important and need to be cared for"

Enduring Understandings The importance of water as a world-wide critical resource for all living things and as a force which shapes the earth's features. Water resources need to be managed and protected The water cycle and how it works

Essential Questions Where does water come from and go? How do we use rivers? How do rivers change throughout their course and change the land? How do people take care of the water in our rivers and why is this important

Vocabulary, Assignments and Rubrics

Search for any of the following keywords in the Grolier Encyclopedia to find information about Rivers and Water:


Rivers, Water Cycle, Names of Rivers (Amazon, Ganges, Missouri River, etc.), Drought, Flood, Stream, Water Resources, Hydroelectric, Groundwater, Lake, Waterfall, Precipitation, Water Supply, Canyons, Erosion, Dams, Reservoirs, Irrigation, Water Pollution, Water Quality, Water Use, Water Conservation
Or use the same keywords to search
the ISL Library Catalog - or use Webpath Express on the catalogue to find websites. Remember to sort the results by grade level and choose only "elementary"

Videos

**Video** about the Water Cycle (3 minutes) Magic School Bus: Wet All Over(30 min WaterSmart: **Video** about the sun, climate and the water cycle (15 minutes) **Video** about Precipitation, Evaporation & Condensation (2 minutes) Where are rivers in the water cycle? *Video** about Water Pollution (2.5 minutes) **Video** about Rivers (2 minutes) **Video** on the many uses of water (3 minutes) BrainPop MOVIE about how Rivers & Streams are formed BrainPop Movie about the Water Cycle Conserving Water (Video - 01:04) Conserve Water & Reduce Water Pollution (Video - 02:00) **Video** about who uses water (1 minute) **Video** about how water can become polluted (2 minutes)

Useful websites.

• Focus on Rivers and Focus on the Nile 2 great sites from Global Eye.org.uk with interactive content
• Water Cycle
• **Enchanted Learning Water Cycle with diagrams and printouts**
• Droplet and the Water Cycle - Interactive, animated quiz game
• BBC Animated diagram of the water cycle -
• A really good site from Enchanted Learning about Rivers: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/rivers/
• How a stream becomes a river - http://mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/rivers/how.htm
• Rivers and the Landscape - http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthriverslandscape.html
• About Rivers and Streams - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/riversandcoasts/rivers/whatis_river/index.shtml
• What is a river? Where does it come from? - http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthrivers.html
• How do rivers change? http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/riversandcoasts/rivers/change_river/index.shtml
• The Impact of Dams - http://www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary_spring01/oncamera/index.html

• Who uses rivers? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/riversandcoasts/rivers/people_river/pg_15.shtml
• Who uses surface water? - http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/wusw.html
• Water use in the United States - http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/wateruse.html
• Living with Rivers - http://www.globaleye.org.uk/primary_autumn2001/oncamera/index.html
• People and Rivers - http://www.globaleye.org.uk/primary_autumn2001/focuson/index.html
• http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/geography/rivers/FeatureArticles/riversoftheworld.htm
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• Pictures of Rivers around the world
• Water Aid Site - help global villagers solve water problems (for good readers!)
• Unequal distribution of water - Global Eye
• Water Treatment Plant
• Cyber Kids facts about water - http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/water.HTM
• Some ways people use water - http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/water2.HTM
• Bert & Phil's Water Busters Game -learn how to conserve water! - http://www.savingwater.org/waterbusters/
• United Nations Water Quiz for Kids - http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/waterquiz/waterquiz4/index.asp
  RIVERS AROUND THE WORLD Click here to find websites relevant to specific rives.